The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

2. Affirmatively: it is an absolute submitting of himself unto Gods disposal: when humbled, he yields himself into the hands of God: and makes an absolute resignation of himself unto the will of God; he ⟨p. 211⟩yields himself a prisoner: he would have yielded upon terms before, but now he yields absolutely: as a Rebel, when he sees himself conquered, yields; so does the Soul to God.

This carriage is opposite to his carriage before: 1. He does not seek deliverance from himself, he yields to God, despairing in himself: he don't feed himself with vain hopes, and carnal confidences any longer: those hopes have all died away? his strong holds that he trusted in, are thrown down: he does not stay any longer upon his affections, reformations, victories over corruptions, &c. he has no dependence upon any strength of his own, to gain any thing that will commend him to God: he has no dependence on Ordinances, on his own wisdom to discover any way of help: but he throws up all his carnal hopes as vain: and submits himself to mercy, Luk 15.17. 2. He leaves off quarrelling with God: before he was humbled, his heart wrought within him: he could not bear the thoughts of it, that God should cast him off; his heart rose up against God, and he thought he had hard measure from God: his sins were all decreed, he had done what he could, he took great pains, and yet God did not show him mercy: his heart rose to think that God should make him to damn him: save and pardon others, and reject him: but now his mouth is stopped, he is silenced, he lets fall all his pleas, yields it to be fair for God to cast him off: he says as David, Psal. 51 4. against thee, thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mayst be justified when thou speakest, and clear when thou judgest.

This carriage is opposite to his carriage before: 1. He does not seek deliverance from himself, he yields to God, despairing in himself: he don't feed himself with vain hopes, and carnal confidences any longer: those hopes have all died away? his strong holds that he trusted in, are thrown down: he does not stay any longer upon his affections, reformations, victories over corruptions, &c. he has no dependance upon any strength of his own, to gain any thing that will commend him to God: he has no dependance on Ordinances, on his own wisdom to discover any way of help: but he throws up all his carnal hopes as vain: and submits himself to mercy, Luk 15.17. 2. He leaves off quarrelling with God: before he was humbled, his heart wrought within him: he could not bear the thoughts of it, that God should cast him off; his heart rose up against God, and he thought he had hard measure from God: his sins were all decreed, he had done what he could, he took great pains, and yet God did not shew him mercy: his heart rose to think that God should make him to damn him: save and pardon others, and reject him: but now his mouth is stopt, he is silenced, he lets fall all his pleas, yields it to be fair for God to cast him off: he says as David,